Letter from Ezekiel, Jacob to Morais, Sabato. Cincinnati, OH; Nov 1887
- Title
- Letter from Ezekiel, Jacob to Morais, Sabato. Cincinnati, OH; Nov 1887
- Date Created
- 14 November 1887
- Format
- 4 pages on 2 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 4, Folder 7
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3pc2tv0w/manifest.json
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3pc2tv0w
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx4FF7_24.xml
- content
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Ezekiel & Bernheim,
Auctioneers,
Nos. 134 Main and 31 Hammond Streets.
Cincinnati, Novr. 1887.
Revd Dr. S. Morais
Philadelphia, Pa.
My valued Friend
The spring of thought has prompted me to write you a few lines, a pleasure that I have not par-taken of for a long time, it may be equally gratifying to you for to know that you are not yet forgotten I trust this may reach you finding your dear self & your entire dear family in the enjoyment of health; and I am pleased to chronicle that all of our family are well thank God. I was in hopes to have wended to y my way East ere this to have embraced the opportu-nity of having a chat with you on our old topics. I am aware that your mind if firmly fixed on the success of the New York Jewish Theological Seminary and I trust that you may accomplish all your antici-pations, I hear but little of its progress. I really hope that you may realize your most sanguine expectations, I do not know how you can manage to educate boys for the ministry without giving them subsistence and clothing during the period of their education, we cannot,
some years ago we had several boys from wealthy families who after spending a couple of years at the college finally went into mercantile pursuits, you must recollect, we had Freiburg, Marks, Friedlander and others, it is only the poorest class that will re-main with us and go through the entire course of study, and there is no calculation to be made even with the poorer class after they have been with us for a few years and obtained a good secular education as well collegiate and subsistance, they drop off. I think the year that "Balisk" our last graduate entered our College there was 15 entered his class with him and all dropped off from time to time, so that he was the only one graduated. doubtless you will have the same difficulty to encounter from time to time. it seems therefore a pity that there would be two rival institutions to promote the same object of instruction; under all those difficulties we have had to encounter, makes me entertain the hopes that the day may not be far distant when circumstances will permit, that an amal-gamation will become a matter of necessity for your pupils to complete there collegiate studies and obtain such Diploma that will be recognized throughout the United States which may tend to their benefit in obtaining lucrative posi-tions. I have been considering these matters over and over, and cannot help thinking of the advisability of amalgamating these two institutions when a time
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shall arrive when the benefit of my views may be-come apparant through force of circumstances, that may prove beneficial to the interest of Juda-ism in this country, as a matter of course you as well as myself are advancing in years of life, and it may probably be well to interchange views on this important subject in our time for the benefit of those who may fill our void when God may be pleased to call us away from this earthly abode. My valued friend you know that I have never for a moment doubted your honesty of purpose, at the time you took hold of this affair. I am charitable enough to say, that from your standpoint it must have been galling enough to you at times, the va-rious articles that emanated from the pen of the President of this college in the "American Is-raelite," still you konw that within the sacred pre-cints[?] of the college, that that which is taught to the students is from the same sources as you or any other teacher would or could teach in any Rabbinical College, and that Dr Wise or any of the other teachers no matter how radical their own private views are, they do not give their opinions in opposition to the teachings of our sages, hence why should any line be drawn between the Eastern or Western College, in the curriculum or course of study.
I just noted in this weeks Jewish Journals that you have entered a few scholars in the higher branches, did they advance from the lower classes? or had they been taught the advance studies before entering the Seminary, I can-not well understand this part of it.
Now as regards our College, we are getting on well, particularly with the rules adopted by the Board of Governors and the Faculty, no doubt you have read them in the "Am. Israelite" in in the printed proceedings of the Board of Gover-nors. We have about 45 students this session, though will not graduate any this year, we will launch them out the next however. We intend to be very rigid with the students and whenever requisite, will read the riot act to them unsparingly, I have no doubt you will tire over this [?], but I write as I feel and when the spirit moves me. My sheet is full so God bless you and all your dear ones with long life and health, and with love to and from all. I remain as ever, yours truly Jacob Ezekiel - Identifier
- p3pc2tv0w
- identifier
- SMBx4FF7_24
Part of Letter from Ezekiel, Jacob to Morais, Sabato. Cincinnati, OH; Nov 1887
Ezekiel, Jacob and Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Ezekiel, Jacob to Morais, Sabato. Cincinnati, OH; Nov 1887”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/86227